Embarcadero Center is a commercial complex of five office towers, two hotels, a shopping center with more than 125 stores, bars, and restaurants, and a fitness center on three levels located in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...
. There is an outdoor ice skating rink during winter months. Embarcadero Center sits on a site largely bounded by Clay Street (to the north), Sacramento Street (to the south), Battery Street (to the west), and the
Embarcadero (to the east), in the
financial district of San Francisco.
Developed by
Trammell Crow
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David Rockefeller and
John Portman, construction began with
Tower One in 1971, with the last off-complex extension,
Embarcadero West, completed in 1989.
The two extension buildings are west of Battery.
The 4.8 million square feet (445,900 m
2) complex accommodates offices for 14,000 people along with mixed-use areas accommodating retail, dining, entertainment and cinema functions. The cinema’s operator closed its doors permanently in February 2022.
Structures
File:Embarcadero Center - Flickr - Joe Parks.jpg, Night, with edge lighting effects
File:2 Embarcadero Center Level P.jpg, Plaza Level of Two Embarcadero Center towards the back of the Hyatt Regency and the Ferry Building
File:Embarcadero Center (5028667417) (cropped).jpg, Aerial view of Five (Hyatt Regency), Four, and Three Embarcadero Center (L–R), with brick-paved Embarcadero Plaza in the foreground
See also
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Embarcadero Station (
BART)
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Vaillancourt Fountain
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Peachtree Center
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Atlanta
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Renaissance Center,
Detroit
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Westin Bonaventure Hotel,
Los Angeles
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References
Further reading
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External links
Official Embarcadero Center website360 degree panoramic photographs of San Francisco's Embarcadero Center fro
Don Bain's 360° Panoramas
{{Buildings in San Francisco, state=collapsed
Skyscrapers in San Francisco
Financial District, San Francisco
Twin towers
John C. Portman Jr. buildings
1971 establishments in California